Solon Brochado: You invite a few underage friends to your house by the beach. They gulp some drinks and decide to go for a stroll by the beach, without you. After a while, they decide to call you to pick them up and you, with no patience for a couple of giggly and inebriated girls, tells them to find their way home.

Seems like a reasonable conduct, right? Not to judge Iledete Veríssimo, from Ipojuca, in Pernambuco. She sentenced a 22-year-old student to two years and nine months in prison for allowing two teenage girls to “ingest alcoholic beverages” while they were staying at his house in 2003. The two girls ended up being murdered after hitchhiking from the beach later the same day.

Judge sentences student for giving drinks to friends who were murdered

Judge Iledete Veríssimo, from the jurisdiction of Ipojuca (PE), sentenced 22 years-old student Thiago Alencar Carneiro da Silva to two years and nine months in prison for allowing teenagers Tarsila Gusmão and Maria Eduarda Dourado to ingest alcoholic beverage. They were both murdered in 2003.

The girls were staying at Silva’s house, on the beach of Serrambi, near Porto de Galinhas. After a stroll by the beach, they hitchhiked with two brothers on a VW van. Ten days after, Tarsila and Maria Eduarda were found shot to death on a road across a sugar cane plantation.

The van’s drivers were arrested, and then released for lack of evidence.

Constraint

Silva was also found guilty of constraint by the judge. It was said the girls asked for the ride after the student refused to pick them up by the beach.

The judge determined the punishment should be carried out at the agro-industrial penitenciary São João.

The reporting crew wasn’t able to track down the student’s defense team to comment on the decision.